PhD, Florida State University
BEHESHTI@pitt.edu
Phone number: 617-308-2540
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Research Summary
Dr. Afshin Beheshti recently joined the University of Pittsburgh as a Professor of Surgery and Computational and Systems Biology, Director of the Space Biomedicine Program, and Associate Director at the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine. In these roles, he will continue his ongoing projects and launch a new space biomedicine program at the University. With this new initiative he will create research opportunities to explore space health issues, research countermeasures to mitigate the damage caused by the space environment and develop outreach/education programs for space biology research.